pod2latex(1p)
NAME
pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format
SYNOPSIS
pod2latex *.pm
pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod
pod2latex -full -sections 'DESCRIPTION|NAME' SomeDir
pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod
DESCRIPTION
"pod2latex" is a program to convert POD format documentation (perlpod) into latex. It can process multiple input documents at a time and either generate a latex file per input document or a single combined output file.
OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS
This section describes the supported command line options. Minimum
matching is supported.
-out
Name of the output file to be used. If there are multiple input
pods it is assumed that the intention is to write all translated
output into a single file. ".tex" is appended if not present. If
the argument is not supplied, a single document will be created for
each input file.
-full
Creates a complete "latex" file that can be processed immediately
(unless "=for/=begin" directives are used that rely on extra
packages). Table of contents and index generation commands are
included in the wrapper "latex" code.
-sections
Specify pod sections to include (or remove if negated) in the
translation. See "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select for the
format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple
times on the command line.This is identical to the similar option
in the "podselect()" command.
-modify
This option causes the output "latex" to be slightly modified from
the input pod such that when a "=head1 NAME" is encountered a
section is created containing the actual pod name (rather than
NAME) and all subsequent "=head1" directives are treated as
subsections. This has the advantage that the description of a
module will be in its own section which is helpful for including
module descriptions in documentation. Also forces "latex" label
and index entries to be prefixed by the name of the module.
-h1level
Specifies the "latex" section that is equivalent to a "H1" pod
directive. This is an integer between 0 and 5 with 0 equivalent to
a "latex" chapter, 1 equivalent to a "latex" section etc. The
default is 1 ("H1" equivalent to a latex section).
-help
Print a brief help message and exit.
-man
Print the manual page and exit.
-verbose
Print information messages as each document is processed.
-preamble
A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are
supported and appended in order separated by "\n". See -prefile
for reading the preamble from a file.
-postamble
A user supplied postamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are
supported and appended in order separated by "\n". See -postfile
for reading the postamble from a file.
-prefile
A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the
named file. Multiple values are supported and appended in order.
See -preamble.
-postfile
A user-supplied postamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the
named file. Multiple values are supported and appended in order.
See -postamble.
BUGS
Known bugs are:
* Cross references between documents are not resolved when multiple
pod documents are converted into a single output "latex" file.
* Functions and variables are not automatically recognized and they
will therefore not be marked up in any special way unless
instructed by an explicit pod command.
SEE ALSO
Pod::LaTeX
AUTHOR
Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2004 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved.
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